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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20342, 15 September 1931, Page 14

"The damage would hardly be covered by the subscription" was the comment of the president of the Union Rowing Club (Mr D. Lee) on a proposal that ladies should be admitted to membership of the club, when the matter was raised at the annual meeting last evening. Difficulty in the matter of providing facilities for training would be caused, he said, by the fact that most girls nowadays worked the same hours as men. The club had not the boats, and also had not the room for both ladies and men to be knocking about the premises at the same time. "The fact is," added a member, "they would he a nuisance." Reports from the Methven district show that so far this season there are expectionally large percentages of lambs. All records so far as this anil other seasons are concerned in the Methven area and perhaps other districts have been totally eclipsed by a Shropshire full-mouth stud ewe, owned by Mr Martin Macale, which gave birth to six fully-developed lambs on Saturday morning. Unfortunately the severe weather of last week has been accompanied by heavy frosts which did not give- any young lambs much chance to survive if they were at all weakly. Going round his flock shortly after daybreak, Mr 'Macale made the discovery of the ewe with six lambs lying nearby. Out of the number only one lamb had survived the'rigour of the cold, wet ground, and the hard frost, The owner has had a .number of ewes in the same flock with up . to three lambs at foot, and in. tne case under notice, is perfectly satisfied that there was no ''pirating" of lambs by the ewe in question.